Is the Requests Per Day (RPD) limit removed after 48 hours?

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Hello,
I am sorry if this question is already answered, but I couldn’t find a similar case when checking the topics.

I am trying to make a small program, that would look for specific information by country, and before I run into 425 errors I want to make sure I understand the limitations of chatGPT requests rate limits. From the documentation page I read:

For free trial users in the first 48 hour, we have added per day rate limits. The normal RPM and TPM limits apply but there is also a separate limits on the number of requests per day for each endpoint.

In the table it shows: Chat 200 RPD 3 RPM 40,000 TPM, but there are 300 country/regions I have to visit, and within each country up to 10 follow-up questions. So, my confusion is about the 48hrs clause; is the RPD limit lifted after the first 48 hrs, and what would be the best approach when making requests like in my use case?

Thanks,
Gijs

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Paid users after 48 hours have no request per day limit.

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Thanks, novaphil, I can see that in the table (see link), but the tab for Free users is not in this table, while the text states that there is a 48-hour condition for free users, that’s confusing me.

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There’s no permanent free plan. Those on free trial credits always have more restrictive limits until they switch to paid.

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Right, because the $5 free credit is a one-time option, which is also time-bound (90 days), after which you have to switch, to keep using the tool (on a pay-as-you-use basis, or stop using the tool altogether. Is that a correct reading?

I will have to switch before the trial is over because I made a quick estimate and to create the database I am after I would need roughly 9,000 requests, and at a 200 RPD this will take 45 days to complete.

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Yeah guessing the documentation is a little vague on free users because it’s not intended to be a long-term thing. If you’re going to do any serious usage of the API, you’re going to need to switch to Paid at some point.

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It’s only a relative small task, and I was willing to wait 2.5 days for the program to go over all the countries and get the information I am after, but waiting 45 days is a little bit too much.

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I guess I will now do it for one country, get the token count, apply a 5% margin after multiplying with 300, and have a cost estimate to run the whole program on a paid account.

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